Part of the reason involves how Boxing Night was actually created. The chiptune soundtrack isn’t merely a stylistic affectation. According to the website, the animators created a method to synchronize animations with a GameBoy in realtime through a homebrew hardware interface.

But even if the whole thing hadn’t been accomplished on a GameBoy, we’d still post it. Unfortunately, to explain why, we’d need to spoil the plot. Hint: the spoiler’s in the categories.

Just hit play. This is inconceivably awesome. It’s the best thing you’re going to see all day.